A Virtual Embrace
Hi everyone, thanks for your kind emails and news. Connecting and celebrating our talents is more important than ever, and you, yes you, are vital to this annogram community. Read on to see how we are creating and bringing forth our best selves. Avoiding stores, I produced my own “card” for a family member—something I really loved doing.Free Ferrye-book and more
Excited to announce Free Ferry (Upper Hand Press) will soon be available as an e-book—thanks to publisher Ann Starr for her master plan to expand readership! I am equally grateful for acceptances in As Above So Below (UK) and Truth Serum PressVerdant anthology (Australia). Snowflakes in a Blizzard
Thanks to Darrell Laurant for featuring my first book, Face Painting in the Dark, this week. Darrell’s concept for his blog came when he considered the challenge writers face in promoting their work—like singling out a snowflake in a blizzard. It’s my good luck that he has also singled out Free Ferry and The Hero. Fonoteca Española de Poesía
Linda Simone’s Watercolors
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| Teabag watercolor (right) by Linda Simone |
Di Meola and the Beatles
New Releases
Cathryn Essinger, The Apricot and the Moon (Dos Madres Press)
Heller Levinson, Seep (Black Widow Press)
Mary Newell, Sarah Nolan, and Bernard Quetchenbach, editors, Poetics for the More-Than-Human World(Dispatches from the Poetry Wars)
Steven Salmoni, A Day of Glass (Chax Press)
Ann Starr, Starr Review – New Edition
Estha Weiner, Poetry Podcast (Soundcloud)
Creative Opportunities
Bronx River Bookswill deliver books to your door if you are in their locale
David Crews offers online community poetry workshops
Hole in the Head Reviewcall for submissions by June 19
The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts is open for submissions.
The Writer's Harbor Poetry Week: June 15-19 with awesome teacher / poet Kevin Pilkington
Linguine with Lentil and Wine Sauce
We still have chilly nights that call for a warm nourishing meal. This one, based on one from The Festive Vegetarian (Pantheon Books, 1983), fits the bill—a vegetarian Bolognaise.
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 onion, peeled and chopped
1 large garlic clove, peeled and crushed
1 teaspoon basil, fresh chopped or dry
1 14.5-ounce can tomato sauce
½ cup dried lentils
1 tablespoon tomato paste or ketchup
1 ¼ cup red wine
1 ¼ cup vegetable stock or water
Sea salt and freshly ground pepper
1 8-ounce box of linguine – try DeBoles
butter
grated Parmesan cheese
Heat oil in medium-size saucepan and sauté onion 10 minutes until soft and slightly brown. Add garlic, basil, tomato sauce, lentils, tomato paste, wine, and stock. Bring to boil, then cover saucepan, turn down heat, and simmer 45 minutes, stirring from time to time, until lentils are tender and mixture is a thick purée. Season with salt and pepper. Cook linguine, drain, and put in a pan with butter, stir, and pour onto a platter. Top with lentil sauce and Parmesan cheese.
Online Poetry + Art Events (EST)
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| Patricia Carragon |
May 17, 3pm, Tompkins Corner Cultural Center
May 21, 4-6pm, "As We Keep Our Distance,” poets Madeline Artenberg, Patricia Carragon, Susana H. Case, hosted by Jerry T. Johnson; register for admission
May 21, 7-8pm, Beth Gersh-Nešić on “Mothers in Art History,” Byram Shubert Library
June 7, 4pm, poets Peggy Ellsberg, Jennifer Franklin, Margo Taft Stever
http://www.writerscenter.org/calendar/shpeditorsreadzoom/
http://www.writerscenter.org/calendar/shpeditorsreadzoom/
Ongoing Poetry Events
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| Ralph Nazareth, host of Curley's Diner Poem Alley series |
Third Mondays, 6:30pm, Norwalk Poetry Workshop
Tuesdays, 7pm, Curley's Diner, Stamford,
Poem Alley/Feedback Group
Poem Alley/Feedback Group
Wednesday Poetry Night
Third Wednesdays, 6pm, Business of Writing and Publishing Workshop
Thursdays, 6:30pm, Mahopac Writers Group
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| Bill Buschel, host of HVWC Open Mic |
Fourth Wednesdays, 6pm, Yorktown Poetry Workshop
Third Fridays, 7pm, HVWC Open Mic led by Bill Buschel
Every other Friday, noon, Talking with Our Mouths Full, translation conversations
Indoor Treats
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| Falling Water by Frank Lloyd Wright |
Visit iconic architecture by Frank Lloyd Wright
Travel the universe via the Keck Observatory Cosmic Videos
Singalong at Marie’s Crisis Café, Facebook group, 4-7pm and 7-9pm
Access exhibits at the National Baseball Hall of Fame
ʼRound the Net
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| Grover Washington Jr. |
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| John Krasinski |
The New York Arts Exchange for online exhibit Fereshteh Priou: Poetry in Line and Form
Surviving the Unexpected
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| New Zealand's Jack Buchanan gets his family in the groove |
Our dramatic societal change makes me appreciate, for the first time, the fears my grandparents surely experienced during the Depression. I have to ask myself if there is enough milk, and if yes, do I want to use it in one meal? I intuit how mind-blown my parents must have been when the US entered World War II. Facing our own global crisis, we’re seeing creativity transform from a “nice to have” to a means of survival—from rapid-fire biomed discoveries to inspirational videos of families quarantining in “Family Lockdown Boogie” and “One Day More.” So, please—now more than ever—do what your heart calls you to do, and make the world more whole by expressing your whole self.
Be safe, be creative!
Until next time,
Ann